Orlando Martins
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Orlando Martins was a pioneering Yoruba Nigerian film and stage actor. In the late 1940s, he was one of Britain's most prominent and leading black actors, and in a poll conducted in 1947, he was liste
Actor Orlando Martins
The Hasty Heart
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The Hasty Heart is a 1949 Anglo-American war drama film, starring Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal and Richard Todd, and directed by Vincent Sherman. It was written by Ranald MacDougall based on the 1945
Orlando Martins
…every theatre can be shown to the world, but a continuity of employment for this talent which is now going sadly to waste.'" He appears in the 1949 film The Hasty Heart (starring Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal), playing the African soldier Blossom, which role Martins also undertook in the stage production. In the 1950s…
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